The Giant Magellan Telescope is the largest telescope ever built, and it is soon finishing construction thanks to the recent $205 million funding that it received from the international consortium that pledged to the cause. It brings a significant space surveillance device that would soon bring images of far-off galaxies and systems, with multiple purposes for the telescope.
According to a press release by the Giant Magellan organization, it recently received sizable funding from a consortium of universities and companies with a united goal for the device. The $205 million funding is the largest investment made for the telescope's construction from the organizations, more than its original funds from its foundation.
The Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard University, the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), The University of Texas at Austin, the University of Arizona, and the University of Chicago all pitched in for this new funding that would help complete the telescope.
The funding will focus on the structure it will make from the Ingersoll Machine Tools in Illinois. It will then focus on the seven primary mirrors at the University of Arizona's Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab.
The Giant Magellan Telescope and its Future for the World
The Giant Magellan is coming for the world and space, and it will help in future discoveries with its most advanced scientific spectrograph instruments that all combine into a single device. It is a 12-story structure in the Atacama Desert, and it would focus on advancements and discoveries that different entities may access for their use.
The Giant Magellan Telescope's Construction
The Giant Magellan Telescope began its construction last November 2015 and it brought significant investment to space studies from different entities that would soon bring the world discoveries. The telescope aims to bring a next-generation space telescope that is here on Earth, with its power surpassing that of current builds.
It is located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, and the project started its excavation last 2018 for the massive structure that would soon be up and running for the world to experience. Its target finishing is by 2022, but its initial reports claim that it would be operational by 2029, and that is a lot of years for its first use.
It is like the Arecibo Observatory and other land-based telescopes available on the planet.
The world is already enjoying a lot of space ventures and surveillance from different organizations and telescopes are available for everyone to review from multiple releases on studies. Soon, with the finishing of the Giant Magellan Telescope, there are more to look forward to and anticipate for further advancement in space.